Improvement in sewing-machine tables



I w.'H. BOYER.

Sewing-Machine Tables. No. 143,611. Patentedoct. 14,1873.

UNITED STATES PATEivMT Orrrcn l WILLIAM H. BOYER, OF BALTIMORE,MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEWING-MACHINE TABLES.

Specification forming part of. Letters Patent No. 143,61 l, datedVOctober 14, 1873 application filed August 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I',W1LLLAM H. BOYR, of Baltimore, Maryland, haveinvented an Improvement in Sewing-Machine, Tables; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full and correct description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- `Figure l isa perspective view of a sewingmachine 4table-top and machine-cover, andFig.

l 2 is a sectional view of a peg attached to the cover.

It has been found necessary in securing the machine-cover of asewing-machine to its table to provide the cover with diagonal, crooked,or other pegs, which enter mortices in the top of the table,and'facilitate the fastening. The pegs are sharp and hard, and, when themachine-cover is taken off and laid aside upon i the table o r -otherfurniture, are apt to scratch 'and soil the finish. To remedy thisdifficulty is the object of my invention.

My invention consists, therefore, in providing the pegs upon themachine-cover of a sewing-machine with buffers or cushions, in themanner hereinafter described, to prevent them from scratching or soilingthe furniture with which they may come in contact. A machinecoverconstructed with my improved pegs and buers may be placed upon thehighly-finish ed parts of the sewing-machine table without injury to thepolish.

In the drawing, A represents the top of a `sewing-machine table, and Bthe machinecover. b b are pegs inclining backward, which enter recessesin the table-top, securing the back of the cover, and b is the stapleinto which the lock-bolt of the lock L enters, and secures the cover tothe table. I construct the pegs b b preferably of metal, with a flange,b", by which they are secured to the machinecover. The body of the peg bis hollow and conical, thesmaller end being outward. With-u in thisconical center I place a piece of conical rubber, leather, or other softflexible material, to be used as a buffer or cushion, and force it outthrough the outer end sufficiently far to reach beyond the edges of thepeg itself. This buffer is, of course, introduced before the peg issecured to the cover, which, when it is secured, keeps the buffer from.being removed or displaced. The staple or peg b is constructed` in thesame manner as b and b, except that it 2. The conically-shaped hollow'pegs of a l sewing-machine cover having flanges and rubber or otherbuffers, substantially as described. The `above specification of my saidinvention signed and witnessed at Baltimore, Maryland,

this 22d day of August, A. D. 1873.

' WILLIAM H. BOYER.

Witnesses: l

RoBT. D. MonisoN ALONZO D. BARTLEsoN.

